colorgrep

Reads from stdin and highlights any matched patterns

Usage

usage: colorgrep [options] <pattern> [[-i] [-w] [-c <color>] <pattern> [...]] [-- <file>]

Reads from stdin (or <file> when specified), any RE2 patterns which match will cause the text to be highlighted.

  -i           case insensitive matching
  -w           word boundary matching
  -c <color>   color to highlight match: blue, cyan, darkgray, green, lightblue, lightcyan, lightgray, lightgreen, lightpurple, lightred, orange, purple, red, yellow
  -e <pattern> use pattern (useful for patterns starting with a hyphen)
  -h, --help   display this help

Example

colorgrep -c yellow berry -c green -i '^ap.*e$' -- fruit.txt

Which will highlight matches:

Installation

intel-linux users:

sudo /bin/sh -c ' wget https://github.com/alexcb/colorgrep/releases/latest/download/colorgrep-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/colorgrep && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/colorgrep'

raspberrypi-v4-linux users:

sudo /bin/sh -c ' wget https://github.com/alexcb/colorgrep/releases/latest/download/colorgrep-linux-arm64 -O /usr/local/bin/colorgrep && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/colorgrep'

intel-mac users:

sudo /bin/sh -c ' wget https://github.com/alexcb/colorgrep/releases/latest/download/colorgrep-darwin-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/colorgrep && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/colorgrep'

m1/2-mac users:

sudo /bin/sh -c ' wget https://github.com/alexcb/colorgrep/releases/latest/download/colorgrep-darwin-arm64 -O /usr/local/bin/colorgrep && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/colorgrep'

Building

First download earthly.

Then run:

earthly +colorgrep-all

builds are written to build/<OS>/<arch>/colorgrep (where OS is either linux or darwin (MacOS), and arch is either amd64 (intel-based) or arm64 (M1, raspberry pi v4, etc))

Licensing

colorgrep is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. See LICENSE.